DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Turkish and Qatari agencies signed a deal Thursday to build a residential village with a 1,000-house capacity in northern Syria. The agreement to build the village in the al-Bab region for displaced Syrians was reached by the Qatari Red Crescent and Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) in...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Forest fires raging for days in northern Tunisia are now “90% under control,” an official said on Thursday. Blazes have been spreading in forests in Bargou, located around 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of the capital Tunis, for some five days. “The wildfires erupted on Sunday and grew in intensity over […]...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh met Germany’s Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner in Ramallah on Thursday. Shtayyeh urged Germany to recognize the state of Palestine in line with Berlin’s “belief in the option of the two-state solution and the importance of preserving it,” according to a ...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The French president has pledged funding for Guinea Bissau’s economic development and fight against terrorism, as he wrapped up a three-country Africa tour after traveling to Cameroon and Benin. Emmanuel Macron met Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who became the chair of the West African economic bloc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Raed Rayan, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prison, suspended his hunger strike on Thursday after 113 days. Hassan Abd Rabbo, a spokesman for the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, said Rayan suspended his hunger strike after mediation by the prisoner movement’s leaders as well as legal efforts of the Pr...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Education Minister George Magoha met Muslim leaders in Kenya and NTV journalist Rukia Bulle to apologize for his offensive racist and Islamophobic remarks. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) chair Hassan Ole Naado were among Muslim leaders present...
Conakry, Guinea — (AFP): Protests against Guinea’s ruling junta held in defiance of a protest ban have brought the capital Conakry to a standstill, with clashes breaking out in some neighbourhoods. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), an influential coalition of political parties, trade unions and civil so...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s military killed 30 of the terrorists who ambushed members of the Presidential Guards Brigade earlier this month in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Defense Headquarters said Thursday. The operation was conducted between Sunday and Tuesday by troops of the 7 Guards Battalion and 167...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Like any other sector, sports in Iran have directly or indirectly faced the heat of US sanctions, undermining the functioning of local sports federations, affecting the performances of players, and in some cases destroying the careers of young and promising athletes. Hatam Shiralizadeh, a prominent Iranian sports journalist...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Thursday it had arrested a spy network accused of working for Israel’s intelligence service Mossad. “The Iranian police have arrested the chief and members of an espionage group affiliated with the Zionist regime,” the Intelligence Organization of the Law Enforcement Command said in a statement cited by the state ...
